Oracle licensing in cloud environments
The Software Asset Management application supports licensing rules for Oracle Database and WebLogic Server (Standard, Enterprise, and Suite Editions) in cloud environments.
When you install or run an Oracle Database or WebLogic Server in the cloud, you can license it using either the Named User Plus or Per Processor license metric. In addition, the WebLogic Server licensing support covers the entire WebLogic product family that includes the Standard, Enterprise, and Suite editions. For more information, refer to this knowledge base article KB2630167.
- The Named User Plus license metric licenses all users and physical devices that access an Oracle cloud database or WebLogic Server.
- The Per Processor license metric licenses the virtual CPUs (vCPUs) on which you install or run an Oracle cloud database or WebLogic Server.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS is a cloud computing platform on which you can install and run Oracle databases and WebLogic servers. You can manage your Oracle databases on AWS using either Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). However, you can manage your Oracle WebLogic servers using only Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). For more information on Amazon EC2, refer to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud documentation. For more information on Amazon RDS, refer to the Amazon Relational Database Service documentation.
If you enable hyper-threading on your AWS virtual machine instance, the Software Asset Management application provides one Per Processor license for every two vCPUs on which you install or run an Oracle cloud Database or WebLogic Server. If you don’t enable hyper-threading, the Software Asset Management application provides one Per Processor license for every vCPU on which you install or run an Oracle cloud database or WebLogic Server.
For more information on Oracle databases and WebLogic servers in AWS, see Oracle Database on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment.
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform on which you can create and run Oracle databases and WebLogic servers.
If you enable hyper-threading on your Microsoft Azure virtual machine instance, the Software Asset Management application provides one Per Processor license for every two vCPUs on which you install or run an Oracle cloud database or WebLogic Server. If you don’t enable hyper-threading, the Software Asset Management application provides one Per Processor license for every vCPU on which you install or run an Oracle cloud database or WebLogic Server.
For more information on Oracle databases and WebLogic servers in Microsoft Azure, see Accelerate your cloud adoption with Microsoft and Oracle.